Analysis

As of now, North America accounts for a majority of the market share for unmanned traffic management (UTM) systems, followed by Europe. This is due to high penetration of autonomous aerial vehicles, UAVs, conventional aircraft, and drones in the region.

The high-volume production of silica aerogel products is not a new business. Despite being known since the 1930s, the adoption of the ultralightweight insulator has faced many false-starts across the 20th century; the commercial ramp-up has only been seen in the last two decades, but it has still not been the rapid profitable expansion model that many hoped.

In this month’s June Update to The McClean Report, IC Insights has presented its forecast for IC usage by major product type and end-use application (i.e., computer, communications, consumer, automotive, industrial, and government/military) through 2025.

Four out of five C-level executives globally (82%) are confident their business is well-prepared digitally, but only 58% of managers agree, according to new global research from Digital Intelligence company, ABBYY.

The worldwide semiconductor market is forecast to be $527bn in 2021, an increase of 19.7% from 2020, according to the European Semiconductor Industry Association (ESIA) based on the latest WSTS forecast data.

Every year technology gets more impressive, and is able to do increasingly incredible things. AI has defeated the Go world champion, cars get closer to self-driving every year, and our phones now talk to our houses. Yet despite this, some of the most basic and fundamental crises facing our world haven’t been solved, chief among them: hunger.

IC Insights recently updated its forecast for 33 major IC memory product categories, including DRAM and NAND flash, in its April Update to the 2021 edition of The McClean Report—A Complete Analysis and Forecast of the Integrated Circuit Industry (MR21).  

Rampant development and roll out of 5G technology around the globe will offer new growth prospects to GaN and SiC power semiconductor manufacturers. These semiconductors are known for providing small form factor and high-power density, hastening their adoption whilst telecom operators augment infrastructure development.

The home automation market has developed at a rapid rate in recent years, a trend which has been partially accelerated by COVID-19 and the fact that people have been forced to spend more time in their homes due to lockdown measures. This in turn has encouraged more suppliers to enter the sector.

The European semiconductor distribution market started with a “flat tyre” into 2021, despite a significant increase in bookings since last quarter. According to DMASS, sales in the European Semiconductor Distribution Market fell by 1.6% to €2.17bn. Sequential growth of 15.6% (against Q4/2020) indicates strong turnaround.